Alfred Bester’s 1953 novel The Demolished Man is another telepathy-as-exposure story. Turns out it’s hard to plot a murder when everybody has ESP and can read your mind, when your wires are poking out ...
What I know is that I don’t want it to be poetic. The time has passed when my poetry was poetic—if in fact my poetry was ever ...
We ‘are’ our attention; but when we are attentive, we aren’t ‘there’—at least not for others. And perhaps not even for ourselves.” ...
In Woolf’s final, unfinished manuscript, she employs a “methodology of disorder” that enables “that state of mind in which it ...
Adam Phillips, the SKIMS NYC flagship, and an app to make you fall in love with hindsight—on flirtation, “the art of making ambivalence into a game.” ...
The Garden of Earthly Delights taught me the consequences of looking at something for too long. It was pitch-black in the auditorium where we had art history class, save for my professor’s beacon of ...
It is a stitched composition notebook in a classic style: speckled, with a black-and-white cover. Burnished by time, it’s also patterned by a network of surface fissures, corrugated marks, and mottled ...
One Easter Sunday, I attended a screening of the film Jesus Christ Superstar put on by my friend at the Brooklyn, New York, office of the well-respected literary magazine where she worked. There were ...
Becoming the world’s only accidental architect.I first met Ray Bradbury while writing a feature story for the Chicago Tribune magazine in 2000, the year he turned eighty, and we quickly bonded over ...